"When she cries rape"

Article here. Excerpt:

"The questions being asked in Mumbai, in Bollywood, are not whether actor Shiney Ahuja did, as was reported, rape his 18-year-old domestic maid or had, as is suspected, consensual sex with her. The questions being asked are what happens to the man in such a case?

How do the police distinguish between what was rape and consensual sex? Is it just the woman’s word against the man’s? What if she is lying? Or out to exploit and blackmail the man? Trap him into marrying her after what was just an affair but mutual agreement? And... further, what happens next? What is the sentence for rape? And can there be one for consensual sex between adults? Also, if (as in Shiney’s case) the man happens to be married and had consensual sex, is he only guilty of adultery? And if he is married and has committed rape, what kind of sentence does he face for the crime? Most Indian laws, framed during the colonial days of the British Raj, remain as grey as ever with prosecuting authorities struggling to get convictions while defence lawyers pick holes in the chargesheet. Even while the police muddle their way through the many ‘rape’ cases in their files, BT posed these questions to criminal law experts."